Collaborate Disseminate
via Sean Gallagher’s superlative blog piece ensconced at Ars Technica, detailing the astoundingly blatant stupidity exhibited by Baltimore City’s IT Department during their recent ransomware episodes.
There is enough stupidity to spread around the Ba… Continue reading Backups? We’re Government IT, We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Backups…
via superlative reportage from DJ Pangburn, we now learn of the ineptitude of US governmental oversight officials (and the Agencies, Bureaus, Departments, and Branches of Federal Government they service) tasked with protecting gathered and stored biom… Continue reading Weak-Kneed Oversight, The Clowns Of Biometric Data Security
via Lily Hay Newman, writing for Wired Magazine, comes her superb take on the oft ephemeral, yet – this instance – globally devastating Le Bug du jour’.
Simply astonishing that Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) let this diety-forsaken code through th… Continue reading Presumptions Of Grandeur, The Cisco Router Fail
Sterling Example of both the Hubris and Cruft of Wipro. Would you trust the Indian outsourcing company with your organizations’ information security?
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Another day, another data thievery revelation at Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB). It’s time for our national law enforcement agencies to take action and act in the manner they would against any other organized criminal enterprise. Raid the corporate headq… Continue reading Facebookery, The Hoovering
via the highly respected Dan Goodin – Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes the story of a fundamental design weakness at GoDaddy, Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), whcih permitted thousands of domains registered at GoDaddy, Inc. to be hijacked, leading to bomb-thr… Continue reading Weak-Kneed GoDaddy Security Implementation Permits Large-Scale Email Bomb Threat Transmissions
via Swati Khandelwal – writing at The Hacker News – comes this news confection, detailing the apparent incompetence of the State of Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) protective security personnel in safeguarding critical investigatory data.
I … Continue reading Oklahoma State Government Exposes Federal Law Enforcement Data
The June 2015 OPM Data Breach, The Gift That Keeps On Giving…
via Shaun Nichols, writing at El Reg, comes today’s shocker: The core flaws which facilitated the Communist Chinese Cyber Attack of June 2015 targeting the US Federal Office of Person… Continue reading OPM’d, Again…
Graham Cluley has reported (from an original Wall Street Journal source report) a Google, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) security SNAFU… This time, the failure of the so-called non-evil company to report a significant data custody failure within their so-calle… Continue reading Google’s Feet of Clay
Yes, you read it right. If you lease a Comcast Modem with WiFi, Comcast has been providing the password to your WiFi network in the clear, with only minimal identity management (snippets of your address for example) (therefor granting access to the wo… Continue reading Comcast, A Litany of Incompetence